Diploma in Career Counselling VPS018

If you love advising people in choosing the right career then become a Careers Counsellor. This indepth course on careers counselling offers you an insight into the work of a careers counsellor. It will provide you with a good grounding in the field of careers counselling, life coaching, counselling and psychology, providing you with the skills to work in careers counselling. Pre-requisite - Some previous knowledge of psychology. If you have not studied psychology before, we recommend you take the Introduction to Psychology course as one of your electives.

Careers Counselling – This is a mainly verbal process, where the counsellor and client are in a collaborative and dynamic relationship, focussing on identifying and acting on the goals of the client. The counsellor uses their repertoire of techniques and processes, to help the client come to an understanding of the options available.

Careers Counselling involves more than just finding work for people.

Among other things, Careers Counselling may involve helping people:

• identify the best job for their skills and interests
• find any job to meet their personal and financial needs
• find a better or more appropriate job for their situation
• achieve job satisfaction through appropriate choices
• plan and cope with career changes
• better adapt to the workplace
• improve their potential for advancement in the workplace
• identify new career possibilities when circumstances change.
• To be able to assist a client in each or any of these processes, a Careers Counsellor must be aware of:
• the diverse nature of employment opportunities
• the requirements for success in different types of jobs
• reasons that people hire and fire employees
• workplace conditions including contract law, industrial relations systems, health and safety issues, ethics - useful contacts among employers, government departments, funding bodies, professional associations, industry experts, etc
• factors that hinder or promote a person‚Äôs job-seeking effectiveness
• trends in the local job market.

A good Careers Counsellor must be impartial and objective.

Course Structure Core Modules: These modules provide foundation knowledge for the Qualification -

• Diploma in Careers Counselling.
• Counselling Skills I BPS109
• Careers Counselling BPS202
• Life Coaching BPS305

Elective Modules: In addition to the core modules, students study any 3 of the following 6 modules.

• Business Studies BBS101
• Counselling Skills II BPS110
• Introduction To Psychology BPS101
• Counselling Techniques BPS206
• Professional Practice In Counselling BPS207
• Professional Supervision BPS301

Note that each module in the Qualification -Certificate in Careers Counselling is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.